What is the best type of tea?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

My personal favourite is Lady Grey which basically tastes like Earl Grey, also very enjoyable, with a hint of citrus - lemons and oranges - it's really a bit of a fruit tea/real tea hybrid though, so it may not be your sort of thing. It's also not especially refreshing, so it's not a very good substitute for water.

English Breakfast tea is also a nice tea, and, as you would expect, is refreshing and awakening for mornings, it's also good for anytime of the day, yet I do prefer to keep it to mornings.

[TosaInu]

Nettle tea is a good water substitute. Can be consumed hot and cold.

[Beirut]

Nettle tea is a good water substitute. Can be consumed hot and cold.

My woman's drinking that stuff. She's doing some intestinal spring cleaning and I think it's part of the ordeal. (Along with all manner of strange potions, vitamins, flax seed, fish oil, and omega-3 oddities littering the kitchen.) She's also drinking white tea, the new in thing. I haven't tried it yet.

Darjeeling is good. I prefer strong dark teas. I tried to like green tea, but I haven't found a good one yet.

Thyme tea (we call it dirt tea) is good when you have a cold, really helps out the lungs.

I might get one of those real tea... things, that BKS uses instead of tea bags, and buy some top shelf Earl Grey. That should be good.

[HoreTore]

Twinnings earl grey, with a couple spoons(or so) of sugar and milk.

[Lehesu]

Big green tea fan. Twinnings is pretty good. A little ginseng tea when sick goes a long way as well.

[TosaInu]

My woman's drinking that stuff. She's doing some intestinal spring cleaning and I think it's part of the ordeal.

I have at least 0.5 liter of it every day for about 15 years.

I prefer strong dark teas. I tried to like green tea, but I haven't found a good one yet.

The Japanese ones seem to be stronger than the Chinese. I'm not sure whether that's a stone law though.

I like Darjeeling very much. However, the bag First Flush (real tea) didn't meet my expectations. That may be bad luck or a fooled sense because I expected something stronger.

[Beirut]

I have at least 0.5 liter of it every day for about 15 years.

And have you been feeling internally cleansed all that time?

I just bought some real Earl Grey and a tea holder as per BKS's suggestion. I'm hooked.

Mind you, if I ever told him I put the tea ball in the cup with the milk, honey, and spoon and drink it like that, he'd probably row across the Atlantic and smack upside the head.

My cup of tea looks like a Borg.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Mind you, if I ever told him I put the tea ball in the cup with the milk, honey, and spoon and drink it like that, he'd probably row across the Atlantic and smack upside the head.

My cup of tea looks like a Borg.

I'm trying to visualise this...does...not...compute...

Have you got yourself a nice



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[Beirut]

I'm trying to visualise this...does...not...compute...

Have you got yourself a nice



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Visualize this.

A large white mug with the tea ball in it, the wire chain hooked to the side, and a yellow plastic kid's fork sticking out of the cup. It was closest in the dish rack."Slurp!"

[TosaInu]

And have you been feeling internally cleansed all that time?

I do not know, it's impossible to compare with 16 years ago. While I'm not unaware of the claimed cleaning powers, I just drink it for breakfast instead of black tea.

At times, I have a cup during the day or night to enjoy. Usually it's either black or green tea for that.

My cup of tea looks like a Borg.

It doesn't taste like it I hope?

[Beirut]

It doesn't taste like it I hope?

No, but I'm sure you would not appreciate its (non) esthetic qualities.

In order to placate the finer comportment of my European friends here, I am right now, at this very moment, making proper tea in a proper tea pot just as BKS would have me do.

I'm feeling more civilized by the minute.

And just where is my dearest AdrianII?